The wording of press releases, and the terminology used daily by the mainstream media, is very telling. Most of it seems to boil down to a combination of wishful thinking on behalf of officials combined with the desire to convince the public that there is nothing to worry about.

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Look at the definitions of the words 'outbreak' and 'epidemic' and 'pandemic' from the Google online dictionary:

The common understanding therefore is that it cannot be spread by coughs and sneezes. Having said that both of those activities allow the release of secretions, or to give them another name, bodily fluids, in the form of saliva and nasal discharges…both of which can support and spread Ebola. So, under the common understanding of airborne, Ebola can indeed spread in such a fashion.

We are all aware that the way the government has handled the spread of Ebola is appallingly bad, and many of us have little hope that the situation will improve. Think about the 'enhanced screening' that has been set up at five international airports. Why have they announced which airports? Those who are looking at getting into the country, even though they have been exposed to Ebola, will just switch airports to one that is not employing 'enhanced screening' of travelers from the West Africa. In addition, why just screen those from West Africa? If Ebola is truly going global, this will do no good at all.

On the subject of the non-touch temperature taking techniques that border control will be using, well where do I start? It's incredibly easy to reduce your temperature—a couple of ibuprofen will sort that out. Additionally, temperature screening only indicates you don't have a temperature now, not that you won't have one in three hours' time, or tomorrow. It's a load of crap. The measures being taken are a load of crap, and we are descending, at ever increasing speed, into a load of crap. Talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

The window of opportunity to prevent a global spread of Ebola has passed. Likening the situation to the AIDS/HIV virus is ludicrous. With those conditions, you have a considerable time, sometimes years, to deal with the problem. People do not die in a matter of days from AIDS/HIV. There are also a few simple things you can do to prevent catching it.

Not so with Ebola.

The lack of containment facilities for dealing with infected patients is woefully inadequate across the whole of the western world. Just 19 biocontainment beds for the entire population of the United States.

Please, God, if I get it don't let me be patient 20.

Of course, other units will be set up, as they were in Madrid, Spain, and we know how that has worked out. The thing is: these infection control beds are not level four units. They don't have the correct air venting systems, they don't have the air locks and air pressure units that practically guarantee, if procedures are followed, that there will be no escape of disease.

My gut is telling me that this isn't going away anytime soon. If you haven't done it already, the time has come to sit down and have a serious think about the needs of your family and how you are going to fulfil those needs should you have to go into self-imposed isolation.

Chris Carrington

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